[A year's review of the treatment of lymphedema of the extremities with the Lymphapress (preliminary note)].

Lymphoedema of the limbs constitutes a chronic disorder. Its form may vary but its treatment is now well-established and medical and surgical therapies have been perfected. We have tried out the Lymphapress as a replacement of Van der Molen's treatment used successfully since 1968. After a brief anatomopathological resume based on Foldi's theory, we recall the various therapeutic indications and the observation of a patient with lymphoedema of the limbs following surgery and Cobalt for seminoma, which we treated using the Lymphapress. The results are analysed. 17 patients were treated between April and June 1979. The method of treatment is not detailed here. This technique does not dispense with secondary compression; it replaces the "piping" used by Van der Molen in major lymphoedema.